Shane Rimmer

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Shane Rimmer was a Canadian actor voice actor and screenwriter known for providing the voice of Scott Tracy in the British television series Thunderbirds He has mostly performed in supporting roles frequently in films and television series filmed in the United Kingdom having relocated to England in the late 1950s His appearances include roles in such widelyknown films as Dr Strangelove 1964 Rollerball 1975 The Spy Who Loved Me 1977 Gandhi 1982 Out of Africa 1985 and Crusoe 1989 More recently he has appeared in Spy Game 2001 and Batman Begins 2005 In the earlier years of his career there were several uncredited performances among others for films such as You Only Live Twice 1967 Diamonds Are Forever 1971 Star Wars 1977 and Superman II 1980 With the exception of recurring featured cast members he has appeared in more James Bond films than any other actor Rimmer has a long association with Gerry Anderson Thunderbirds fans may recognize him as the voice actor behind the character Scott Tracy He drafted the plotline for the penultimate episode Ricochet which was later turned into a script by Tony Barwick He also wrote scripts and provided uncredited voices for Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons Joe 90 and The Secret Service has made appearances in episodes of Andersons liveaction UFO and The Protectors has and provided voices for Space 1999 and has gueststarred in the episode Space Brain In later years he starred in the unscreened pilot Space Police later made into a series with other actors and titled Space Precinct and provided the voice for Andersons stopmotion gumshoe Dick Spanner PI Rimmer and fellow Anderson actor Ed Bishop often joked about how often their professional paths crossed and termed themselves RentaYanks They appeared together as NASA operatives in the opening of You Only Live Twice and as USN sailors in The Bedford Incident as well as touring together in live stage shows including Death of a Salesman in the 1990s He also appeared in Doctor Who in 1966 and in Coronation Street as two different characters Joe Donnelli 19681970 who held Stan Ogden hostage in No 5 before committing suicide and Malcolm Reid 1988 father of Audrey Roberts son Stephen He has made many guest appearances in British television series for ITV including in Roald Dahls Tales of the Unexpected and ITCs The Persuaders In 1989 Rimmer was reunited with former Gerry Anderson actors Ed Bishop and Matt Zimmerman in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles A Study In Scarlet Rimmer and Bishop also appeared in the BBC dramadocumentary Hiroshima completed not long after Bishops death in 2005 Note His official website and travel record on the Immigration Travel section of Ancestry give his year of birth as 1929 Description above from the Wikipedia article Shane Rimmer licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia